Steve Wilson 

Steve Wilson was born in 1961 and grew up around Springfield, Ohio. He is one of the original founders of Columbus's Stonewall Union, Central Ohio’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ+) Community Organization. In 1981, he along with Craig Covey, Craig Huffman, Keith McKnight, Rick Rommele, Val Thogmartin, and Dennis Valot took the first steps to organizing Stonewall.
In his interview, Wilson talks about growing up in Springfield, the experience of being an "out" teenager in rural Ohio, and his family's response to him being gay. He discusses attending The Ohio State University, becoming active in the Gay Activist Alliance, and starting Stonewall in response to Jerry Falwell's moral majority. Wilson describes what being gay in Columbus in the 1980s was like, finding his community, and the bigotry he experience. He shares the early work to get Stonewall founded, the start of the Gay Pride Parade, and setting up Columbus's first television show focused on the LGBTQ+ community, The Gay Pride Report. He concludes his interview by talking about the importance of the bars to the gay community, fundraising, and Stonewall's political work over the years.
This oral history was recorded by Rob Berger as part of his mission to collect and share stories from the LGBT community of Central Ohio.
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